Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

• Main Authors: Gao, Shouting (Author), Li, Xiaofan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Atmospheric sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Geographical information systems.; Continuum physics.; Geophysics.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Earth Sciences, general.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.

This book examines cloud-resolving modeling of tropical convective processes and summarizes modeling results during TOGA COARE since 1992. The book introduces the framework of cloud-resolving model, methodologies for analysis of modeling outputs, and validation of simulations with observations. The...

Table of Contents:

• Model and Physics
• Analysis Methodology
• Comparison Between Simulations and Observations
• Surface Rainfall Processes
• Tropical Cloud Clusters
• Cloud Radiative and Microphysical Processes
• Convective, Moist, and Dynamic Vorticity Vectors
• Diurnal Variations of Tropical Oceanic Convection
• Precipitation Efficiency
• Air–Sea Coupling
• Climate Equilibrium States
• Remote Sensing Applications
• Future Perspective of Cloud-Resolving Modeling.